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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	sin_n	20,679	5	5.1979	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89175	The miseries of vvar. By a Lover of truth and peace: and by him dedicated to all that are such.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Calver, Edward, fl. 1649, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing M2246; Thomason E85_13; ESTC R4068	5,146	15

Exod 3.8 Psal 144.14 there was no complaining in our streetes but each man sitting under the shade of his owne Vine might without feare eat of his owne figtree Isa 36.16 and drinke the waters of his owne cesterne How richly habited were almost all rankes and degrees of people In our Saviours time those that wore soft cloathing were in Kings houses Mat. 11.8 but in the time of our late peace it was to be found almost in every pessants Cottage silkes were the ware of every ordinary person wee accounted him a very meane trades-man that could not put his wife into a silke gowne and a beaver nay were not the wives of many Citizens of ordinary trades habited in as rich Sattin and bone-lace adorned with as many orient peales faire diamonds and other jewels of value as might well become a queen and yet now paradventure would gladly part with them to be secured sustinance for themselves and families How munificent were we in our buildings with stately Turrets seeming to threaten the very clouds many of them already left dessolate without an inhabitant and how great pitty is it to see such stately Fabrickes levelled with the ground How did we abound in rich furniture costly hangings couches bedding and the like massie plate and other gallant house-hold-stuffe already become a prey to the mercilesse souldiers even those that pretend to fight for us What curious gardens brave orchards faire meddowes rich pastures and fruitfull corne fields are now ruined defaced and unmanured Indeede wee did abound in all things that plenty could afford or curiosity invent we had health wealth pleasure profit now turned to sicknesse penury paine and mourning Parents then injoyed the deare pledges of their love their children children their loving parents friends and neighbours mutually happie in each others society so that nothing was wanting to our felicity But this bloody tyrant Warre hath put a period to all our joyes all our happinesse Monstrum horrendum informe ingens that huge horrible ugly Monster Horresco referens I tremble to speake of it When David had committed that great sinne against the Lord in numbring the people and as a punishment for it was to submit to his choice of three heavie judgements chose either Pestilence or Famine then that of the Sword which he knew had no mercy Let us saith he now fall into the hand of the Lord for his mercies are great and let me not fall into the hands of man ● Sam 24.14 Warre is one of Gods greatest Plagues his fearefullest judgements his heaviest scourges upon a Nation for how ugly is the visage of it how manifold are the miseries of it Especially that of a civill warre as ours is in this Kingdome Man created after Gods owne image destroying the image of his Creator Christian most unchristianly slaughtring his brother in Christ nay Protestants linckt by a nearer tye of religion massacring those of their owne Religion the father most unnaturally ripping up the bowels of his sonne and the sonne of the father a brother beating out his brothers braines kinsman against kinsman friend against friend most barbarously and inhumanely butchering one another here a bullet there a speare or Poleax separating the soule and body in the very act of wrath and malice the devouring Cannon heaping the mangled carcasses of horse and man together What ghastly lookes what hideous screekes and dismall groanes what grisly gaping wounds of dying men besmeared with blood and dirt doe even affright and terrifie the hearers and spectators though their enemies What out-cries teares and sighes by new-made widdowes for their husbands deaths What mournings by aged parents for their slaughtred sonnes What lamentation by poore distressed children made fatherlesse by warre What pillaging plundrings rapines murders massacres by the cruell barbarous and bloody souldier No liberty left us of ploughing sowing trafficking or trading one with the other That with the industrious and painefull tradesman or husbandman hath with much labour and paines gathered together to be the staffe and comfort of their age and to be a portion and provision for their children in an instant becomes the prey and spoyle of a few mercilesse men And all these miseries usually seconded by pestilence and famine Let us looke upon the miserable condition of Samaria beseiged by the Syrians when by reason of the warre the famine was so great 2 Kings 6.25 that an asses head was sold for fourescore pieces of silver and the fourth part of a kabb of doves dung for five peeces of silver Nay women did eate their owne children as appeares by a womans complaint to the King of Israel And she answered verse 28.29 this woman sayd unto me give thy sonne that wee may eate him to day and we will eate my sonne to morrow so we boyled my sonne and did eate him and said into her on the next day give thy sonne that we may eate him and she hath hid her sonne Let us behold the miseries of Germany a Kingdome once as famous and flourishing as ours lately was but hath now suffered the miseries of almost 20 yeares warre where many stately Townes and Cities have beene burnt to the ground women ravished even in the very Churches and after hewen in peeces mens eares and noses cut off and strings put through them to make hat-bands holes made in the legges and armes of men and cords drawne through them their guts pulled out at their mouthes children tost on the points of speares and so great hath the famine beene in some part thereof that the people have beene glad to eate dogges cats dead men and all manner of carrion for foode Nay let us goe no further then bleeding Ireland which now suffers for our distraction here and we shall finde their miseries not behinde those of Germany where after they had beaten out the husbands braines they ravished the wise and then ripping her up being with childe cast the childe into the fire ravishing maides and women before their parents and husbands faces driving men and women naked out of their houses into the frost and snow where hundreds of them have perished with cold and famine hanging some and with most exquisite tortures mangling gashing and miserably tormenting others without all sence of humanitie And God Almighty knowes how soone it may bee our turnes to suffer the like or worse calamities unlesse we endeavour to prevent it by applying all our diligence industry and affections towards the procuring of a Peace while it may bee had The long continued warre in Germany shewes us Peace is not easie to be obtained when a smaller Army then ours on either side hath beene for many yeares together attempted to be removed but without successe Neither doth God alwayes blesse either the greater or the better side with victory For we have many examples in Scripture where great Armies have beene overcome with smaller numbers and our Saviour himselfe tells you that the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices were not sinners above all the Galileans Luke 13.1 2 3 4. because they suffered such things nor those 18. upon whom the tower of Sh●loh fell and slue sinners above all men that dwelt in Ierusalem which shewes they are not always the greatest sinners whom God suffers to perish here Let us therefore use all possible endeavours for a peace and for prevention of farther shedding of blood least by lamentable experience we finde our selves included within that heavie judgement pronounced by our Saviour which is that All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Mat. 26.52 FINIS